Dance Arabia!

New girls in the troupe!

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Dance Arabia is pleased to announce that Leah and Devorah are both new members of Dance Arabia. Both dancers have unique styles that will blend well with the other dancers.

Dance Arabia at Tamer's show "Jewels of the Nile"

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Vancouver Pride Performances

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Dance Arabia is Proud be to dancing to Vancouver Pride again this year! We'll be performing June 27 at East Side Pride around 1pm. We're also dancing at the Sunset Beach Festival August 2 about 230pm.

We're working on our disco outfits and will see you there!

Dance Araiba at Rahma's Student Night, March 2009

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Dance Arabia is alive and kicking!

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Dance Arabia has new members, new spirit and is currently working on new routines! We look forward to dancing around town this summer!

Dance Arabia at the PNE with Rahma and her dancers

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Dance Arabia at Pride, 2008!

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Dance Arabia performed on the Pride stage again this year. We were on pretty early, the parade was still going on, however, we still managed to have a good crowd! We missed Christie though!

More Pics from Dance Arabia presents - East Meets West

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More pics from Dance Arabia presents - East Meets West (July 13 2008)

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A very small sampling of pictures for the last show...July 13, 2008

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Upcoming performances

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Dance Arabia will be performing once again for Vancouver Pride Society on the Main Stage at Sunset Beach, Sunday, August 3 at 130pm.

We'll be performing Saturday August 9 at the Richmond Fest at King George Park in the afternoon, lots of ethnic foods and performances!!

Dance Arabia will be performing with Rahma, her friends and students at the PNE on the Festival Stage at 7pm, Saturday, August 24.

We hope to see you at on or all of our upcoming performances!

Dance Arabia

Sazi's first solo from Dance Arabia presents - East Meets West Sunday July 13, 2008

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Dance Arabia - Sword! from East Meets West show, Sunday, July 13, 2008

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Another successful show!

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Dance Arabia had another successful show Sunday, July 13. We were joined this time by Devorah and Leah, two fabulous dancers in the Vancouver area, both of which we hope to dance with again very soon! Pictures and vidoes will be posted in the next week.

Dance Arabia at Rahma's Student Night - June 22 2008

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Karen at Rahma's Student Night, June 22 2008

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Mini performance of Stephanie at Rahma's student night, June 22 2008

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July 13th show

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Dance Arabia is proud to present yet another show, July 13th at the St. James Community Hall. 3214 West 10th Avenue. Doors open at 645pm, show at 7pm sharp.

We are proud to present that Devorah and Leah are going to be our special guests. Both dancers are show stoppers and are not to be missed!

Tickets are $15 in advanced or same at the door. For ticket information you can email jennifer@dancearabia.net.

Upcoming summer performances

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We're getting busy for summer! We'll be dancing at Rahma's student night on June 22 (Sunday) at Mona's.

We are putting on another show this time in Kits. Once we have all details confirmed we'll update.

Once again we'll be dancing for Vancouver Pride, dates to be confirmed.

We'll also be dancing at the PNE on the Multicultural Stage (August 23) with Rahma and her dancers.

Stay tuned, more performances for summer are in the works!

Cheers
Dance Arabia!

Shows this summer

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Some of the places Dance Arabia will be performing this summer:

Rahma's student night Sunday June 22 at Mona's.

PNE Multicultural Stage Saturday August 23 at 7pm

We are still hammering out details for a Dance Arabia show this summer, but it looks like it'll be either Saturday July 12 or Sunday July 13.

We hope to see you at one of the events!

Dance Arabia!

Non-stop Bellydance Gala Show!

2008-04-23T19:25:00.000-07:00

Dance Arabia will be performing at the Non-Stop Bellydance Gala Show starring Tamra-henna of LA!

May 3, show starts at 8pm

Polish Community Hall
4015 Fraser Street

Tix are $15

Hope to see you there!

Introducing Dance Arabia!

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Christie’s life is all about music and dance. Not only has she enjoyed bellydancing for years, she is also a music teacher, a singer-songwriter and a choral director. Fun is the focus when Christie dances as she loves music from all over the world!

Kazmira has been performing for 14 years. She entrances you the minute she comes on stage. She’s equally at home performing folkloric as she is performing modern styles.

Ghazaleh was born in Iran and has been dancing all her life, bellydance, Persian and salsa. She is a naturally graceful dance. Each time she performs, she bares her soul to the audience and it’s hard to take your eyes off her.

Jennifer has been performing for over 7 years. As a soloist and choreographer, she excels at putting together creative arrangements and fusing bellydance with music as diverse as celtic, western pop and classic Egyptian.

Having grown up among bellydancers, Karen continues to be drawn to this dance form for its beauty and depth of spirit, as well as the quality of people it attracts. She is graceful yet powerful dancer and currently teaches bellydance on the North Shore.

Marina dances to connect with her middle eastern heritage. She’s been dancing for over 7 years and is drawn to the folkloric music and dance of Egypt. Marina captivates audiences with her interpretations of the music.

Sazi is a third generation bellydancer and has been dancing since she was 3. She is a very well-rounded dancer, training in pointe, ballet, jazz, street jazz, modern, bellydance. Sazi is one to watch for in the coming years!

(photos by Frank Roberts www.frankjulian.com)

Upcoming show details. . .coming soon!

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Dance Arabia is working on presenting "Dance Arabia....East Meets West" in July and an all new show in November. As well, Dance Arabia will be seen dancing at festivals and shows all summer long.

We've also working on a website! www.dancearabia.net coming soon!

Goofing off on the way to performing at MEDA Bazaar

2008-03-30T20:30:00.000-07:00

We were performing at the MEDA Bazaar on Sunday March 30. Was fun, had tons of compliments on the new outfits and on the sword routine. Of course, each of us bought something new at the bazaar!

Rahma's Student Night March 2008

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Not a lot of pictures, because the batteries died after 40 pictures!! But some highlights!

Dance Arabia - the new costumes!

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We worked our asses off to get these done. . . and it was worth it! I don't think I've ever gotten as many compliments about a costume or routine before since I've been dancing! Yes, I'll say it, we looked HOT!

Jennifer and Karen at Rahma's student night, December 2007

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Dance Arabia with the Ramha dancers at the PNE

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Hi all! A couple of us will be performing at the PNE this year with Ramha and her dancers, September 1 on the multicultural stage, 6pm and 7pm, come check it out! Will be a great show!

Goofing off before the Parade!

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I have no idea how he picked such great dance music but Skyy (from Co-op Radio) was playing awesome middle eastern music for us, of course danced, drew a crowd, had many pictures taken of us and with people standing with us, good times! the weather was perfect, the crowd was anticipated to be large (it ended up being a record breaker) and we were ready to wow the crowd! Thing was we had to keep some enerby in reserves to wow the crowd again at the festival stage in front of more record crowds! We had fun and are looking forward to next year!

Dance Arabia at the Pride Parade 2007

2007-08-19T00:08:00.000-07:00

Wow! What a fun time! We were invited once again to be a part of the crazy Co-op Radio float! This year, the group won it's division! By the end of the parade, eye lashes were melting off, we were warm and had to do it all again in an hour and a half at the festival stage! Fun weekend! Thanks for the pictures Skyy!

East Side Pride~

2007-07-23T18:26:00.000-07:00

Good times at East Side Pride! The girls had a blast at east side pride as well as the party at the Wise Hall afterwards!

Dance Arabia performances this summer

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Dance Arabia will be performing a few times for the Pride Society this year! Firstly, Saturday, June 30 in the afternoon at East Side Pride and then at night at the East Side Pride Dance at the Wise Hall.

We will also be performing at Gayday at Playland and on the main festival stage during the long weekend. Check out www.vancouverpride.ca for details.

Dance Arabia performs at Vancouver Pride events this year!

2007-05-14T19:13:00.000-07:00

TBD however Dance Arabia will be performing at Vancouver Pride again this year! We can't wait!

Jennifer at the Festival Stage at the PNE

2006-09-02T14:00:00.000-07:00

Last night was a perfect night to perform at the PNE on the Festival Stage. It wasn't too hot, the sun wasn't directly in our eyes, we could see the crowd and there was a nice sized crowd. All and all a great night!

Performance at the PNE Festival Stage

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Me and Marina at the PNE Festival Stage last night (September 1, 2006). It was nicer this time that the sun had gone down a bit so it was entirely in our eyes! Awesome! Had fun once again!

Festival Performance at PNE - Festival Square

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Diane and her students on the Festival Stage at the PNE. (love the above picture!)

Getting ready to perform

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Festival Square performance at PNE

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Once again we were part of the Festival Stage at PNE and once again we had a blast. It was a hot day, the stage was pretty warm, we all had the sun in our eyes, making it extremely hard to see at times!! And a great crowd again, as always!

Diane and Marina doing a sword duet (below)

Jennifer, Christie, Maki and Ghazaleh (below)

Diane (below)

Jennifer and Marina duet (below)

Maki (below)

Jennifer (below) (Jennifer, Maki, Marina and Diane did a veil improve to close the show, below are some pictures from the solo or duets during the improve, more pics to come!)

Maki (below)

Marina and Diane (below)

Upcoming Performance

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Dance Arabia performs next with friends at the PNE Cultural Stage Monday, August 28 at 5pm.

Pride Parade!

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What a fun time! Dance Arabia was asked to walk the parade with Co-op Radio (www.coopradio.org) in this year's Vancouver Gay Pride Parade. Great fun! Christie and I (Jennifer) were entertaining the crowd and both believe it's the most fun we've had performing to date! We don't have pictures from the parade (I'll be stealing those later from a friend) however, below are some pictures of the float and the area while everyone was getting ready for the parade.

Homopalooza

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Well, Dance Arabia performed at the Homopalooza show Sunday, July 30. And, it went off pretty well (besides one of us throwing her cane across the stage!). The show was at the Plaza of Nations and it was one giant beer garden and I have to admit it was pretty fun walking around with a drink, watching a show, and shopping all at the same time!! You could even get tattooed and pierced if you wanted to as well! Below are some pictures that Ana (friend from work) took of us performing, and no, I'm not including the one of me throwing the cane across the stage!

Homopalooza

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Below are pictures of some of the other performers from Homopalooza (starting with us of course!) There was everyone on the stage from a punk rock bands to hip hop dancers to burlesque performers to drag kings to crazy MC's! It was worth the $10 admission!

Dance Arabia performs at Homopalooza!

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Dance Arabia is proud to announce we are performing at Homopalooza this year! We will be on stage at 1:46pm. Come on down, have some beers, get a good front row seat and enjoy the show!

For more details, visit http://www.vancouverpride.ca/event-details.cfm?id=16. Tickets are $10 and the show goes from 1pm to 8pm. Yes, there's a beer garden!!

Dance Arabia at Pride Picnic

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We were asked this year to fill in for someone that wasn't able to perform due to illness at the Pride Picnic this year. Well! Of course we said yes right away to that! As attendees, it was fun to be there as performers. The crowd was nice, the people in the beer garden were drunk, good times all around!

Jennifer (all red), Christie (red and purple) and Marina (all black)

Our Amir Show!

2006-04-05T18:08:00.000-07:00

These are some pictures from a recent performance at a church hall for the gentleman in the middle in the picture below, Amir. He's been living in sanctuary at a church in East Vancouver for almost two years. His family is now all safe in Canada, he, unfortunately, had some bad luck with a very bad lawyer and someone pretending to be a lawyer, so, he's not a Canadian Citizen yet. . . but hopefully soon! He graced us with a song after his mother sang for us. Both are very lovely singers. We hope to perform next at his victory party!

Rahma show December 2004

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I think this show was either December 2004 or March 2005. Very fun show! Kalypso was packed and we had a blast! I love the group dances our troupe comes up with! They are lively and fun and we always pick great music (yes, I'm partial!)

Maki, she's always lovely with the veil! If you have seen her use the veil, the double veil or the isis wings, you know you are in for a treat!

Maki again. This night she was only going to do the group dance with us. Of course Rahma would have none of that! Luckily Maki has plently of solos up her sleeves. . .

Jennifer (me!) with my double sword routine. I performed to The Corrs!

Jennifer again

Ghazaleh lovely in mint and gold. This is a great costume on her. If you have Ghazaleh dance, you see her soul. She's a beautiful dancer that bares her heart and soul each time she dances.

December 21 performance

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I couldn't think of a better way to spend the shortest day of the year than performing at Celebrities. The crowd was on the smallish size however they still seemed to be in the mood for the performances. Of course, the bar was serving $3.5 drinks!

Davie Street Days performance

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We performed on the Celebrities stage for the Davie Street Days.
Jennifer, Christie and Ghazaleh, sword trio routine

Maki, solo

Jennifer, Christie, Ghazaleh, Maki, Rock the Casbah routine

Upcoming Performance

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Dance Arabia will be performing at midnight, Wednesday, December 21 at Celebrities. $5 at the door and $3.75 drink specials. . .

Our performance at Scotia Dance Centre, part of Eye of the Wind

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Dance Arabia was part of the Eye of the Wind show that Rahma Haddad put on. We did our Rock the Casbah, a remake of the original by Rachid Taha. The change room (if you can call it that) was extremely small, but overall it was fun. Our pictures are the last three.

Our performance at Wiggle this year

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As requested, upcoming September performances

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Hi all!

We are performing at PNE under the Rahma Belly Dancers September 4 (sunday night) at 7pm and 8pm. Each show is about 40 minutes and there are a ton of performers! Will be fun!

We will also be performing September 10 at the West End Community Centre for our teacher at 1:45pm. We have another performance for the Davie Street Days but I'm not sure yet what time it'll be at!

Cheers

Oh! What an amazing week I had at Denman Island

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I went to Denman Island for Lynette and Brownyn's Denman Island Dance retreat. Oh my god. . .it was amazing! We danced and ate for five days! And, somehow, I managed to lose weight eating lebanese food each day and having at least one chocolate bar each day (Denman Island Chocolate bars are amazing!)

We learned so many great things, had a lot of opportunities to dance to live drum, I met some great ladies (and a few wonderful cooks! The guys were in the kitchen cooking while the girls were dancing!) and I'm still tired! lol

The place where I stayed was great as well because there were five of us in the course that were staying at the B&B. . .was was awesome as well!! We would wait until the bakery was opened and then run for coffee! If you've been to Denman Island you know that there is one bakery, one general store and one deli. . . that's it! but was awesome!

What a better way to tell you what we do then to post some pictures!

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OK, this is just someone we love!
We miss you Stavros (one of the
Hottest dancers out there!)

Jennifer and Maki, ever posing! With canes

Maki performing with veil

Jennifer and her Shamadan!

And after we before at PNE, we will update the blog with
some sword pictures!

Fun stuff and upcoming performances

2005-08-10T17:15:00.000-07:00

So, Dance Arabia is going to be dancing with some over very lovely ladies at PNE again this year on the Multicultural stage on Sunday, September 4. We have two shows again this year, 7:00pm and 8:00pm and it's jam-packed! One of our favorite instructors Rahma Haddad is dancing this year again, and Devorah is also gracing the stage with us. If anyone has seen her dance, you know she's awesome! Of course, the lovely lady Diane, who organizes us for this event every year, is dancing as well (and she's quite nifty with the sword and cane!) If anyone is in the area, come watch the show! We will have many group performances, swords, canes, and much much more!

Fun with Pictures!

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(above) Jennifer at Vancouver Pride, 2005

(above) Maki at Vancouver Pride, 2005

(above) Ghazaleh at Vancouver Pride, 2005

(above) Christie at Vancouver Pride, 2005

This is each of us doing a solo at Vancouver Pride, 2005. So much fun! I had to write about it again!

Vancouver Pride 2005!

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Hi everyone. This is Dance Arabia Middle Eastern Dance Troupe after performing on stage at Vancouver Pride, 2005. We were performing on the festival stage after the parade! Man! Was it fun! If it's possible, the crowd was more responsive than last year! Carl from the Pride Society said this was the first year he had so much tits and ass on stage. lol.

Oh, in this picture from left to right we are Christie, Jennifer, Ghazaleh and Maki. These are the crazy Rock the Casbah outfits we came up with. And if you didn't get it yet, we are Middle Eastern dancers (or bellydancers). We've been dancing together for at least the two years and haven't grown tired of other yet!